Happy Children's Garden (Cambodia)

In the 1970s, the brutal Pol Pot regime nearly destroyed Cambodia, killing around 2 million people through execution, forced labor or starvation. Thirty years later, the country still struggles to meet the basic needs of its people. Deep psychological scars remain, and many suffer from stress related disorders. Through this broken world walks Cambodia's next generation, growing up largely ignored and unwanted by adults who do not listen to them and cannot afford to send them to school. Instead, these children must stay at home, tending to younger siblings and doing housework. Lack of education even extends to hygiene and disease, which children can fall victim to so easily. Even those who are allowed to attend Sunday school may not get the guidance and love they need, as teachers lack the education and materials to adequately help them.

Seeing the desperate need of its nation's children, TWR-Cambodia's team produces the Happy Children's Garden program, a weekly 15-minute Bible story series geared to reach children of all ages. Beginning with creation and ending with Christ's return, each program not only teaches life applications, but also biblical traditions, customs, culture and the geography of the Holy Land, so that children will have a more complete knowledge of Scripture. Listeners learn songs performed by children in churches TWR's team visits, and they can win prizes by sending in correct answers to questions about the day's story.

Happy Children's Garden is currently aired on local FM stations throughout Cambodia. The TWR-Cambodia team also touches listeners' lives on a personal level through correspondence and rallies held in different villages, where they learn more biblical lessons, receive gifts of basic hygiene items and eat food specially prepared by volunteers.

Your gift of $100 will help direct Cambodian children toward a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

"This is Real Talk" Podcast for Secular Millennials

“Does spirituality even matter in the 21st century?” “What happens to me after I pass away?” “Where do my moral values come from?”

Eighty-two percent of European Millennials are completely disconnected from churches and religious organizations. To this people group, the questions above are confusing, complicated…and vital. They are yearning for truth.

Many young people go to online podcasts to find answers to their deepest questions. We are currently in the midst of a global podcast phenomenon. This is a gift from God for a media organization like TWR, and we need to meet those young people where they search for truth!

Furthermore, podcasts are ideally suited for engaging in personal and profound conversations about important spiritual topics. We now have a new podcast doing exactly this and reaching out to young, secular people—This Is Real Talk!

This Is Real Talk! is a video podcast series in which our host interviews young, prominent Christians, including writers and professional athletes, about fundamental spiritual questions such as those above. The videos are distributed via YouTube and the audio via popular audio apps.

We have already begun with the Spanish pilot project of Esto Es Real Talk! Check out the video version on YouTube. You can also listen to it on iTunes,Spotify, SoundCloud and Ivoox.

We hope to expand to new languages in Europe and beyond in the future. Many secular young Europeans are apathetic to religion. They see it as irrelevant to their lives. However, they are searching for truth and open to honest conversations.

Will you join us in this great opportunity to use a current media trend to reach a largely ignored audience with truth?

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1 https://knoema.com/hlth_ds040/participation-in-activities-of-churches-or-other-religious-organisations-by-level-of-activity-limita. There are few recent religious statistics on European Millennials. The population surveyed in this statistic were 16 to 24-year-olds in 2006, so they would be about 29-37 years old in 2019 (i.e. older Millennials).

A New Partnership for Radio Stations in Mexico

Mexico is one of the world’s most violent countries. People live in fear of gang violence, corruption, and drug trafficking. Christians are considered a threat to organized crime, and pastors face intimidation and death threats with the aim of silencing their ministries.

TWR has a new national partner in Mexico, Radio Encuentro, and its founder and president has been persevering for years to get permission to establish radio stations in the country.

The mission of Radio Encuentro is to broadcast into the most remote areas of Mexico and draw listeners into an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. Permission has been granted to set up a station in the state of Veracruz, and TWR would like to assist with the funds to complete the station and begin work on a second one while also supplying Spanish programming to a potential listening audience of about 3 million people. TWR would like to secure $50,000 for this new partnership.

A Season of Hope in Japan

What began as a ministry to Japanese tsunami survivors several years ago has grown into a full-blown, countrywide lineup of programs for Japanese listeners that airs over 22 FM stations.

More than a dozen pastors produce five biblical programs while also ministering through TWR’s Every Man A Warrior men’s ministry and the Women of Hope radio program for women. TWR’s Truth in the Test Tube program for scientists and atheists is next up for translation and airing to a potential audience that exceeds 10 million people across Japan.

The staff also conducts training and distributes gospel tracts throughout the year. TWR’s Japanese staff is greatly burdened to reach a country that has been called the second largest unreached people group in the world.

Will you come alongside them to strengthen this outreach? Our goal for the coming year is $115,000.

Africa Needs Jesus: Radios for Africa

TWR will be distributing radios in Africa to Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

Thank you for providing a radio to someone in Africa who doesn’t own one. Now they’ll be able to listen to great Christian radio too.

Africa Orality Projects-Unreached Peoples

Visit a rural Hausa village in West Africa, and sooner or later you’ll come across a group of children and adults gathered around an elder telling a story. They're doing more than listening to a story, though—they’re taking part in the rich cultural heritage that defines the Hausa and gives a strong sense of their place in their community and world.

The Hausa are considered “oral learners”—that is, storytelling, drama, and other oral-teaching forms are some of the best ways to reach their hearts, even among those who are literate. They are also one of Africa’s largest “unreached people groups,” with only .04 percent being evangelical Christians, and more than 30 million of them live within range of TWR’s West Africa Transmitting Station.

That’s why, with the help of people like you, TWR has developed innovative programs that use traditional teaching forms to share the gospel story, like the Hausa-language program Hasken Rai (Light of Life), in which a younger person asks an elder questions about a Scripture passage.

And the Hausa people are being changed by the Word! Just last year, thanks to many who support Hasken Rai, almost 2,500 Hausa listeners responded with testimonies like this one:

“Thank you. I got converted to Christianity through your programs. I was about to perish, but your program set me free. Please pray for me, because I want to understand what God requires from me since I received Him as my Lord and personal Savior.”

The gospel is the greatest true story ever told, and with your gift right now, you can help tell it to the Hausa and four other unreached “oral-learning” people groups in Africa who may never hear it any other way. At only $20 a minute to reach an average of 1.2 million people, how many minutes of God’s truth can you provide?

Audio Devices and Radios for Africa

The vast continent of Africa is home to nearly 2,500 ethnic groups, many of which are Muslim. In the rural settings of many of these people groups, radio plays a major role in village life, as 20 or more people typically gather around the radio for news, music, storytelling and, most importantly, spiritual nourishment. TWR’s shortwave and satellite broadcasts bring in-depth teaching from God’s Word to those in need.

Every gift of $50 provides a radio and a chance for many more least-reached people in sub-Saharan Africa to hear the gospel and find hope.

Bible Stories for Bolivian Children

Illiteracy, hunger, malnutrition and domestic violence plague many Bolivian youth. For these children, TWR Bolivia has produced a new radio program in the indigenous Quechua language.

In the words of one of their own people, the program teaches them about God and biblical values. When TWR Bolivia staff travel to Quechua communities to provide radios, many of the local people are immediately drawn to Jesus when they realize he speaks the language of their hearts.

Your gift of $58 provides a radio that gives a Quechua child’s family the opportunity to hear the Bible in their heart language.

Biblical Program for Russian Ukrainians

About half of Ukrainians live in poverty, and the recent political turmoil has only added to their anxiety. The rampant use of drugs and alcohol takes a tremendous toll on society, and many Ukrainian women deal with prostitution, trafficking, HIV/AIDS, abortion, and divorce.

In addition, according to prayer guide Operation World, in the years since communism fell, the market economy has allowed corruption to flourish among the elite while many others languish in need.

The radio program Biblical Statement is produced in Kiev, Ukraine, by a journalist who seeks to address the questions of atheists and skeptics. The goal is to encourage listeners to think for themselves, considering the biblical answers presented in the program.

This weekly program for Russian speakers in Ukraine and the surrounding countries allows TWR's local team there to reach out to the lost, bitter, and hopeless. The response from listeners is evidence the program makes a difference in young adult lives as they search for the truth that can set them free.

Our goal to continue producing Biblical Statement for another year is $25,000.

Bless a Cuban with a Radio

At night many Cubans stay home to tune in to TWR’s Shine 800 radio station from Bonaire. Many others would like to listen, but their radios are worn out or broken, and most Cubans cannot afford to buy new ones.

Since TWR replaced the 100,000-watt transmitter with a 450,000-watt one, the radio signal into Cuba is strong and clear across the whole country. In Cuba, where the internet is regulated and the roads are hard to travel, radio is an important tool to bring the gospel.

Your gift of $45 will bless a Cuban with a quality solar-powered radio to tune in to messages of hope.

Cambodia Studio

TWR's national partner in Cambodia has a long history of producing and airing a popular program for children in the Khmer language called Happy Children's Garden. The on-air episodes are complemented by rallies conducted in villages where they can personally minister to children with songs, Scripture, and puppetry while also providing them with a meal.

Other Khmer radio programs include Women of Hope and several translated programs of our media partners. Unfortunately, the recording and production studio is in very bad shape. Short-term fixes are no longer working, and the production of programs has become compromised. A major upgrade to the studio is needed to sustain TWR’s ministry in Cambodia.

The population has cause for despair in one of the world’s poorest countries. Poverty drives thriving industries in drug trafficking, prostitution, and child labor, but here's what one listener to Women of Hope said: “I learned that true joy and peace are from God, who changes me and enables me to live with grace.”

A gift to TWR's Cambodia studio upgrade will allow more Cambodians to hear about the grace of God that replaces despair with hope. We hope to raise $50,000 for the coming year.

Champions Arise

One of TWR’s newest ministries, Champions Arise, was launched in response to the call of our listeners for a program specifically for men.

Champions Arise uses prayer, small groups, and mass media to challenge, encourage and coach men worldwide to become champions of Christ, enabled by God’s Spirit to live out their true identity in him and to run the race of faith through his power.

The Champions Arise radio program has been translated into more than a dozen languages using content from three partner ministries: The Four Priorities, Every Man a Warrior, and Adult Children of Divorce.

Champions Arise encourages men to embody Christ’s example of humility and integrity, to build Christ-honoring relationships, and to be committed to prayer and the study of God’s Word, living it out in every aspect of their lives.

Specific needs include airtime for Russian broadcasts, airtime for Indonesian broadcasts, and translation of the programs into Albanian. Champions Arise would like to raise $20,000 in the next year to continue ministry expansion.